451 Quotes by W.H. Auden

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

If people marry on the assumption that love must always overcome obstacles, they will either become unfaithful or they will make things difficult. The better you know someone, the better you can torture him: man and wife become each other’s devils.

Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.

It’s usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

All the literati keep An imaginary friend.

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them.

In life the loser’s score is always zero.